Hi,

Thanks for this explanation. My next naive question will be: why this
function, which is only supposed to list available repositories, does
initialize some local only repository stuff in /tftpboot if nothing is
in there?
Because of the usage of online repositories, i would like this function
(or another) to just give back an empty list; this allows one to choose
how to setup the different repositories. In other terms, i am
uncomfortable with the idea that this function always setup a local
repository when it is supposed to list available repositories (local or
online).

Does it make sense for you?

Regards,

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 10:12 +0100, Erich Focht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you are misunderstanding the fole of the function.
> 
> list_distro_pools() returns a hash with primary key being all distributions
> that are configured to be supported in /tftpboot/distro.
> 
> That means:
> If a user wants to support centos-5-x86_64 (master+clients) and
> centos-5-i386 (some clients), he should first make sure that yume has access
> to the corresponding distribution packages by:
> 
> - copying all distro packages for centos-5-x86_64 to
> /tftpboot/distro/centos-5-x86_64/
> 
> - copying all distro packages for centos-5-i386 to
> /tftpboot/distro/centos-5-i386/
> 
> - creating /tftpboot/distro/centos-5-i386.url with the content:
> file:/tftpboot/distro/centos-5-i386
> 
> - creating /tftpboot/distro/centos-5-x86_64.url with the content:
> file:/tftpboot/distro/centos-5-x86_64
> 
> - alternatively: instead of copying in the distro packages one can add to
> the .url files the URLs to base and updates repositories prefered.
> 
> The approach with local distro files is allways working, and the repository is
> visible from clients in a non-routed cluster, too. The other approach only 
> works
> if we configure a proxy on the master and point all clients to it, or if the
> clients have direct access to the outer world.
> 
> 
> This means: a distro which a master can support must have a configured
> distro repository.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Erich
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 07 November 2007 23:38, Geoffroy Vallee wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I try to update the new OPD in order to deal with repositories based on
> > repositories definition in /tftpboot. For that i need to get the list of
> > supported distros. I tried to use the function list_distro_pools from
> > PackagePath but it seems that we currently assume that OSCAR
> > repositories can ONLY be local. 
> > 
> > Is it normal?
> > 
> > Regards,


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